OpenGlyph — Catalogue of the American Public DomainJurisdiction: United StatesRev. 2026.08
Images / art

Two archives, queried live.

Every record below comes from The Met or Smithsonian Open Access and was filtered on that archive’s own rights field before it reached this page. 17 shown for “Adrien Constant de Rebecque” — 45 records examined, 24 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-06 23:30 UTC · fetched live for this request

Object
Public domainThe Met’s isPublicDomain field is true for this object.
CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian’s metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Not shownAnything failing its archive’s rights field is dropped server-side and never appears here.
[Man in Chainmail Tunic Posing as a Dying Soldier], by Adrien Constant de Rebecque

[Man in Chainmail Tunic Posing as a Dying Soldier]

Adrien Constant de Rebecque · ca. 1863

Public domainThe Met
Felix Constant de Boisgerard, by Charles Balthazar Julien Févret de Saint-Mémin, 12 Mar 1770 - 23 Jun 1852

Felix Constant de Boisgerard

Charles Balthazar Julien Févret de Saint-Mémin, 12 Mar 1770 - 23 Jun 1852 · 1809

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Henri-Benjamin Constant de Rebecque (1767–1830), by Pierre Jean David d'Angers

Henri-Benjamin Constant de Rebecque (1767–1830)

Pierre Jean David d'Angers · 1830

Public domainThe Met
Viola rothomagensis Desf.

Viola rothomagensis Desf.

Artist not stated in the record · 1843

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Henri Benjamin Constant de Rebecque (1767–1830), Swiss-French political writer and politician, by Pierre Jean David d'Angers

Henri Benjamin Constant de Rebecque (1767–1830), Swiss-French political writer and politician

Pierre Jean David d'Angers · 1830

Public domainThe Met
Menispermum canadense L.

Menispermum canadense L.

Artist not stated in the record · 6 Oct 1925

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Basket of Flowers, by Eugène Delacroix

Basket of Flowers

Eugène Delacroix · 1848–49

Public domainThe Met
Equisetum fluviatile L.

Equisetum fluviatile L.

Artist not stated in the record · 22 Jul 1925

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
[Mugshots of Suspected Anarchists from French Police Files], by Alphonse Bertillon

[Mugshots of Suspected Anarchists from French Police Files]

Alphonse Bertillon · 1891–95

Public domainThe Met
Salix discolor Muhl.

Salix discolor Muhl.

Artist not stated in the record · 8 May 1926

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Lathyrus japonicus Willd.

Lathyrus japonicus Willd.

Artist not stated in the record · 25 Jul 1929

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Rosa blanda Aiton

Rosa blanda Aiton

Artist not stated in the record · 25 Jun 1925

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Rubus sp.

Rubus sp.

Artist not stated in the record · 25 Jun 1925

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Hedwigidium integrifolium (P. Beauv.) Dixon

Hedwigidium integrifolium (P. Beauv.) Dixon

Artist not stated in the record · 1889

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Campylopus polytrichoides De Not.

Campylopus polytrichoides De Not.

Artist not stated in the record · 1901

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Plan de la Maison de Ste. James, by Jean-Charles Krafft, French, 1764 - 1833

Plan de la Maison de Ste. James

Jean-Charles Krafft, French, 1764 - 1833 · 1812

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Plan general de la foundation de la Serre chaude au Jardin de St. James, et Coupe prise sur EF, et les détails des fourneaux, by Jean-Charles Krafft, French, 1764 - 1833

Plan general de la foundation de la Serre chaude au Jardin de St. James, et Coupe prise sur EF, et les détails des fourneaux

Jean-Charles Krafft, French, 1764 - 1833 · 1812

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
What was queried

Where these records came from.

Two archives are wired, and only two. Each one is filtered on its own rights field — never on a title match, and never on the presence of an image file.

  • The Met Collection API (Open Access)Rights field: isPublicDomain. 5 matched · 5 examined · 0 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where isPublicDomain === true and a file URL was published.5 shown
  • Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field: content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 615860 matched · 40 examined · 24 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.12 shown

These figures describe the pass run at 2026-09-06 23:30 UTC, during this request. A completed pass is kept for 24 hours and replayed for an identical search, which is what keeps repeated queries inside Smithsonian’s 30-requests-per-hour allowance. A pass in which either archive failed to answer is never kept — an outage must not be replayed as though it were a finding about the catalogue.

Wikimedia Commons and the Library of Congress are deliberately not wired. Wikimedia was confirmed, on a live query, to return CC-BY material inside the same result set as genuine public domain works, and filtering it safely has not been designed yet. loc.gov was blocked by bot detection during the source evaluation, so its rights vocabulary has never been observed — and nothing here is built on a field nobody has read.

An image file is a rights claim. It never travels without its field.